• INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    It’s a hundred bucks a year for the domain alone. When I registered my first one in about 2013 it was 10 bucks a year. I registered them for the lols, pointed retarded URLs at my friend’s servers and spammed it.

    You can Proton Mail now for free I think? - I pay for some server space but it’s a fraction of the cost of hosting even the domain name.

    It should be cheaper ten years plus later, not more expensive 😭

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      2 months ago

      Depends on the domain I think but yeah I don’t understand why registrars can own them and I can’t.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t know about these days but I’m pretty sure you used to be able to become a registrar somehow.

        I used to work with a .com.au registrar and got to enforce the policy. It was fun shutting down people from trying to register the weird shit. I held the line with some honourably sweaty neck beards for a year or so.